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Imperial Classical Ballet Awards 2005
I
really look forward to dancing in the Ballet Awards, I’ve
been taking part each year for the last seven years and I
was really looking forward to meeting up with dancers who
I only ever see once a year at Queen Mary’s College.
I love the social side
of it all, made even more interesting this year as we were
asking each other where we had been auditioning and had anyone
been fortunate enough to be accepted anywhere yet? The Queen
Mary College venue is fantastic, a proper theatre and auditorium
with an appreciative audience. The stage is huge and I remember
as a little 9 year old feeling a bit lost on it, but over
the years have learned to make the most of it trying to dance
across every centimetre.
My Intermediate class
was on the Sunday. I’d also entered for the Stella Mann
Bursary competition, which if successful, would come in very
handy for September! I wanted to see my slightly older friends,
some of whom are at Vocational schools now, in the classes
the day before, so I travelled to London from Suffolk with
my family on Saturday. It was great to be part of the audience
on Saturday with the knowledge that I could just sit, enjoy
the spectacle and relax that day.
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Gede
Foster, winner of a Musicality Cup in Intermediate |
I was determined to do
my very best on the Sunday, bearing in mind that it could
be my last time there. It’s thrilling when standing
in our lines as the curtains go back. Everyone looks so beautifully
groomed. To take the reverence at the start of the class makes
me feel so proud. Any nerves disappear after that and I’m
now fully focused ready to listen to the class and dance for
everybody.
The Intermediate class
was taken by Jayne Cooper; I liked her teaching methods because
she did it in a way that allowed me to absorb the steps and
if we didn’t understand something she was happy to explain.
This allowed me to really perform. I was so pleased to get
through to the final and because she had taken such an excellent
class was able to be totally relaxed in the final. Knowing
that the adjudicating panel were all current Royal Ballet
Company members, gave us all inspiration, as it is every young
dancers dream to be like them.
When the results were
announced and I was placed second, I was thrilled and my smile
got even bigger. The company members who presented the prizes
were very friendly and full of encouragement. My day was getting
better and better when I was told that I would be dancing
in The Joyce Percy Memorial Award, which was going to be taken
by Francesca Filpi – with her leg in a full cast! That
didn’t matter at all because her class was brilliant!
She was really friendly; telling us to enjoy ourselves, forget
it was a competition and just dance, as “it’s
a Sunday”. I would love to have her as my ballet teacher.
She seems so approachable and encouraging. I thoroughly enjoyed
that class.
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Rosie
Munns, a Grade 4 Finalist, dancing a ‘Pas de Chat’ |
I had a couple of hours
off before The Stella Mann Bursary Competition. What I’d
done so far had really warmed me up for it and I couldn’t
wait for it to start. Lorraine Swain took the class. She had
taken classes that I had danced in before so I knew that she
would be in tune with us and her work would be challenging.
I danced my heart out, really enjoying the musicality of the
class work. The adjudicating panel were so warm, which helped
us to do our best. I loved every bit of it. I was over the
moon to be tied in first place! I knew my parents would appreciate
the money to help with the expenses of a vocational school.
What a day. Brilliant
- loved every second of it. Such a lovely, warm, friendly
atmosphere. I think all the dancers would agree.
I know that I wouldn’t
have done so well and got this far without the help from teachers
at my school; the June Glennie School of Dance in Lowestoft,
Suffolk, particularly Sharon. I was thrilled when my school
was awarded ‘The Dancing Times Cup’ as our dancers
had gained the most points over the two days. Thanks, Mum
and Dad, for your support in running me around and to my sister
for sitting around when she’d rather be mucking out
the horses!
I am also very grateful
to the ISTD for putting on such a fantastic event which I
know I’ll miss dancing in. Who knows though, in the
future, I may be lucky enough to be there either taking a
class or adjudicating.
Lauren Smith
Photographs: On the
Spot
Sports Photography
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| Doreen
Wells with Katie Bond, winner of the Doreen Wells Cup
for ‘Port de Bras’ |
Grade
4 Prize Giving. Ricardo Cervera and Laura Morera with
Emily Colclough, a Class Work Prize Winner. |
Imperial
Ballet Award Winners
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Grade 3
Class prizes
Hannah Pye (Sharon Glennie, Suffolk)
Charity Heaseman
(Caren Nieuwenhuisen, Stonelands School)
Musicality Cup
Molly Ward (Corraine Collins, Cheltenham)
3rd Place
Julia Melllor (Corraine Collins, Cheltenham)
2nd Place
Lisanna Huisman (Stephanie Brangwin, Lichfield)
1st Place
Emily Neil (Alison Wakefield, London)
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Grade 4
Class prizes
Emily Colclough (Jayne Cooper, Hampshire)
Dale White (Linda Shipton, Ipswitch)
Musicality Cup
Gemma Beasley (Corraine Collins, Cheltenham)
3rd Place
Rachel Davies (Corraine Collins, Cheltenham)
2nd Place
Abigail Bebbington (Bronwen Patching, Essex)
1st Place
Laura Day (Corraine Collins, Cheltenham)
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Grade 5
Class Prizes
Saskia Dixie (Joanne Bond, Essex)
Tess Cosad (Rosemary Woodd, East Grinstead)
Musicality Cup
Jasmine White (Corraine Collins, Cheltenham)
3rd Place
Megan King (Charlotte Corbett, Norwich)
2nd Place
Christina Marks (Anne Tyrer, Luton)
1st Place
Georgia Attfield (Sharon Glennie, Suffolk)
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Grade 6/Intermediate Foundation
Class Prizes
Charlotte Potter (Janet Marshall, Cheltenham)
Maria Thomas (Rosemary Woodd, East Grinstead)
Musicality Cup
Vassilena Milondis (Donna Buchanan, Cambridge)
3rd Place
Lucy Gallagher (Sarah Watson, Swindon)
2nd Place
Emily Cave (Debbie Allen, Co Dublin, Eire)
1st Place
Lauretta Summerscales (Avis/Robinson/
Summerscales, Surrey)
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Intermediate
Class Prizes
Samantha Lock (Sharon Glennie, Suffolk)
Charlotte Watts (Sharon Glennie, Sufolk)
Musicality Cups
Gede Foster (Caren Nieuwenhuisen, Stonelands School)
Chloe Balster (Janet Marshall, Cheltenham)
3rd Place
Kariss Rihoy (Caren Nieuwenhuisen, Stonelands School)
2nd Place
Lauren Smith (Sharon Glennie, Suffolk)
1st Place
Zoë Ashe-Browne (Debbie Allen, Co Dublin, Eire
•
Advanced
Doreen Wells Cup for Ports de Bras
Katie Bond (Joanne Bond, Tiffany Theatre College)
Musicality Cup
Not awarded
3rd Place
Not awarded
2nd Place
Katie Bond (Joanne Bond, Tiffany Theatre College)
1st Place
Ashleigh Doddington
(Joanne Bond, Tiffany Theatre College)
•
Choreographic Awards
Eileen Read Award
Jennifer Farrow (Charlotte Corbett, Norwich)
Kathleen Browning Award
Emily Goodenough (Corraine Collins, Cheltenham)
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Boys Awards
Junior Boys Award
Dale White (Linda Shipton, Ipswich)
Senior Boys Award
Not awarded
• Miscellaneous
Awards
Stella Mann Bursary
Zoë Ashe-Browne (Debbie Allen, Dublin)
Lauren Smith (Sharon Glennie, Suffolk)
Elizabeth Baines Hewitt Award in Association with The Gordon
Edwards Charitable Trust
Toby Mallitt (Linda Shipton, Ipswich and English National
Ballet School)
The Joyce Percy Memorial Awards
Laurretta Summerscales
(Avis/Robinson/Summerscales, Surrey)
The Dancing Times Cup
Sharon Glennie (The Glennie School, Suffolk)
The Jean Campbell Award for services to the Imperial
Classical Ballet Faculty
Mrs Sonia Draper, New Zealand
The Wells Summer School Scholarship
given by Francesca Filpi
Emily Colclough (Jayne Cooper, Hampshire)
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